The Monumental Cemetery of Antella, a locality in the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli, is an extremely interesting place from an artistic point of view, due to its particular history and grandeur.
When Florence became the capital of Italy (1865- 1871) the local and Florentine nobility chose it as a burial place for their dead and had several chapels built and embellished by artists of the time.
Prominent among them is the figure of Galileo Chini, the outstanding representative of the Italian Art Nouveau style. Numerous stained glass windows as well as ceramics and vases come from the Chini factory in Borgo san Lorenzo. Giacomo Roster and Adolfo Natalini, among others, worked on the subsequent extensions of the cemetery; poets and men of letters, architects, composers and musicians, politicians, art scholars, famous painters and sculptors rest in this cemetery.
We remind of the tomb of Jane Clairmont Clara Mary, writer, half sister of Mary Shelley and lover of Lord Byron.
The most important works include decorations by the Chini family, the Madonna on the portico by Amalia Duprè, and stained glass windows by Rodolfo Fanfani and Guido Polloni.
Cimitero Monumentale della Misericordia dell'Antella
Via Montisoni, 14, 50012 Antella FI, Italia
